nighten
English
Etymology
From night + -en.
Verb
nighten (third-person singular simple present nightens, present participle nightening, simple past and past participle nightened)
- (intransitive) To become night or grow dark, as night.
- 1996, Frederick Kiesler, Siegfried Gohr, Gunda Luyken, Frederick J. Kiesler: selected writings, page 60:
- The flame of these smudge pots was just the type which presented itself in my vision, fluttering like a flag and giving off enough dark smoke to nighten the wooden sculpture above and around the flame.
- 2005, David White, The Hallucinogenic Rooster, page 163:
- A flash of pretty fireworks in a nightening sky falling down, making the dry field catch fire.
- 2014, Harlan Ellison, Paingod:
- A dark place, a shadowed place, only a blot against the eternally nightened skies.
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Anagrams
- henting